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Sherlock Holmes
"The evidence is clear."
Me:
"I still can't find my glasses."
They're on my head.
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Here is my Review of The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959 w/ Spoilers: https://youtu.be/3Sl1vzEsM-4 #TheHoundoftheBaskervilles1959 #UnitedArtists #SherlockHolmes #PeterCushing #ChristopherLee #Murder #Mystery #Thriller #Movie #Review
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Sherlock Holmes es un personaje fascinante que cautiva a los lectores desde su aparición: es meticuloso en su trabajo, pero desordenado en su vida privada; fuma compulsivamente y guarda su tabaco en sus pantuflas; consume cocaína para estimular su mente; no parece tener ningún interés en el sexo opuesto; cambia bruscamente de estados de ánimo y toca el violín a altas horas de la noche
#sherlockholmes #libros #literatura
https://www.maikciveira.com/2012/01/elemental-mi-querido-doyle-parte-ii.html?m=1
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Sherlock Holmes es un personaje fascinante que cautiva a los lectores desde su aparición: es meticuloso en su trabajo, pero desordenado en su vida privada; fuma compulsivamente y guarda su tabaco en sus pantuflas; consume cocaína para estimular su mente; no parece tener ningún interés en el sexo opuesto; cambia bruscamente de estados de ánimo y toca el violín a altas horas de la noche
#sherlockholmes #libros #literatura
https://www.maikciveira.com/2012/01/elemental-mi-querido-doyle-parte-ii.html?m=1
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Sherlock Holmes es un personaje fascinante que cautiva a los lectores desde su aparición: es meticuloso en su trabajo, pero desordenado en su vida privada; fuma compulsivamente y guarda su tabaco en sus pantuflas; consume cocaína para estimular su mente; no parece tener ningún interés en el sexo opuesto; cambia bruscamente de estados de ánimo y toca el violín a altas horas de la noche
#sherlockholmes #libros #literatura
https://www.maikciveira.com/2012/01/elemental-mi-querido-doyle-parte-ii.html?m=1
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Sherlock Holmes es un personaje fascinante que cautiva a los lectores desde su aparición: es meticuloso en su trabajo, pero desordenado en su vida privada; fuma compulsivamente y guarda su tabaco en sus pantuflas; consume cocaína para estimular su mente; no parece tener ningún interés en el sexo opuesto; cambia bruscamente de estados de ánimo y toca el violín a altas horas de la noche
#sherlockholmes #libros #literatura
https://www.maikciveira.com/2012/01/elemental-mi-querido-doyle-parte-ii.html?m=1
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Sherlock Holmes es un personaje fascinante que cautiva a los lectores desde su aparición: es meticuloso en su trabajo, pero desordenado en su vida privada; fuma compulsivamente y guarda su tabaco en sus pantuflas; consume cocaína para estimular su mente; no parece tener ningún interés en el sexo opuesto; cambia bruscamente de estados de ánimo y toca el violín a altas horas de la noche
#sherlockholmes #libros #literatura
https://www.maikciveira.com/2012/01/elemental-mi-querido-doyle-parte-ii.html?m=1
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Grateful for time to pause and think #grateful365 #photoADay #wal365 #euro26 #SherlockHolmes #221bBakerSt 251/365
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Grateful for time to pause and think #grateful365 #photoADay #wal365 #euro26 #SherlockHolmes #221bBakerSt 251/365
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Grateful for time to pause and think #grateful365 #photoADay #wal365 #euro26 #SherlockHolmes #221bBakerSt 251/365
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #SherlockHolmes #GuyRitchie Guy Ritchie Is Officially the King of Streaming With New Apple TV Win http://dlvr.it/TVPfks
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¿Sabían que Sherlock Holmes nunca vistió en las novelas originales su famoso sombrero de cazador ni usó una pipa de calabaza, y que estos elementos icónicos fueron añadidos por ilustradores y actores de teatro?
El detective creado por Arthur Conan Doyle apareció por primera vez en la novela Estudio en escarlata en 1887. En ninguno de los 60 relatos escritos por el autor se menciona que el personaje utilizara la famosa gorra de doble visera y orejeras conocida como deerstalker dentro de la ciudad de Londres. La imagen nació en las páginas de la revista The Strand, cuando el ilustrador Sidney Paget decidió vestir al detective con esa prenda rural en 1891 para ilustrar el relato El misterio del valle Boscombe, considerando que el personaje necesitaba ropa adecuada para una investigación en el campo. La audiencia adoptó la imagen de tal manera que el sombrero de cacería se volvió un elemento inseparable de su identidad.
La famosa pipa curvada de calabaza, conocida como calabash, sufrió una transformación similar debido a las necesidades de la actuación en vivo. En las historias originales, el detective fumaba tabaco en pipas rectas de arcilla, madera de brezo o cerezo. El cambio radical llegó en 1899 con el actor estadounidense William Gillette, quien adaptó y protagonizó la obra de teatro oficial del personaje. Gillette descubrió rápidamente que una pipa recta le impedía pronunciar sus líneas con claridad y ocultaba las expresiones de su rostro ante el público de las primeras filas. El intérprete decidió sustituirla por una pipa curva de calabaza, la cual descansaba de forma cómoda en su barbilla y permitía que la audiencia viera su cara libremente, fijando para siempre el estereotipo visual del detective más famoso del mundo.
— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso
Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot
#SherlockHolmes #Historia #Literatura #CulturaPop #Teatro #Mitos
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Sherlock Holmes nunca pasa de moda. Esta semana quiero invitarlos a conocer las fuentes originales, es decir, las novelas y cuentos escritos por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creador de Holmes y de otros personajes encantadores. Empecemos con una biografía de Sir Arthur...
#literatura #libros #sherlockholmes #conandoyle
https://www.maikciveira.com/2012/01/elemental-mi-querido-doyle-parte-i.html?m=1
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Praha si připomíná muže, který naučil československé četníky dívat se na zločin jinak – a také trochu lépe „čichat“. Plukovník Oldřich Pinkas patřil k největším esům československé kriminalistiky.
Tón: : mírně pozitivní
#česko #gdelt #sherlockHolmes #československo #služebníPes
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Ma nouvelle #LectureDuMoment est un autre classique : Le chien des Baskerville de #ArthurConanDoyle
J'ai joué à plusieurs jeux #SherlockHolmes et vu plusieurs adaptations, mais je n'en avais jamais lu un seul. Après m'être lancé le #jeuvidéo Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, je me suis dit que c'était l'occasion.
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𝘊𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘴 (𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘺𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦: 𝘈 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺) - 1997
𝘌𝘴 𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘰́𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘢 𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘢 𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘰́𝘴𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰.
𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘦𝘭 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰́𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪́𝘢.
▪️𝘓𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢: 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘢 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘴 (𝘌𝘭𝘴𝘪𝘦 𝘺 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴) 𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘺𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘪́𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘰𝘴.
𝘔𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘰́𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘰𝘺𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘴𝘶 𝘩𝘪𝘫𝘰 𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢, 𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘫𝘢 𝘭𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘰́𝘯 𝘺 𝘦𝘭 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘥𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘌𝘭𝘴𝘪𝘦.
▪️𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘴: 𝘊𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭.
𝘌𝘭 𝘪𝘤𝘰́𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘖'𝘛𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢 𝘢 𝘚𝘪𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘰𝘺𝘭𝘦, 𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘺 𝘒𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘥𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘢 𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢 𝘦 𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘪 (𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘰𝘺𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘯𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘪́𝘢 𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘴).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6XXIQVvHVk
#hadasdecottingley #cottingley #arthurconandoyle #harryhoudini #sherlockholmes #historia #misterio #enigmas #fotografíahistórica #espiritismo #primeraguerramundial #curiosidadeshistóricas #historiasreales #leyendas #culturapopular #historiadelafotografía #francesgriffiths #elsiewright #ecosdelpasado #misteriosdelahistoria
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#SherlockHolmes: The Case of the Aglet by snaitf #FicRec https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/2475040.html
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A fresh Case File has been posted: "The Cipher at the Corner of Moor Lane." Watson has a cipher on his breakfast table. Have your deduction at the ready — see the article.
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/case-file-no-1-the-cipher-at-the #SherlockHolmes #VictorianMystery #Puzzle
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A puzzle from my casebook, laid out for the amusement of the parlour. In 1885 a Virginian pamphlet printed three ciphers said to hold a vault of treasure; the first defies every eye that has met it since. My own is humbler fare, of the plainest drawing-room kind. Each letter has marched forward thrice through the alphabet. Restore it, and earn my compliments:
WKH JDPH LV D IRRW
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlock #holmes #sherlockholmes #boredom #brainwork #cogitation #commonplace #intellect #mundanity #ordinary #prosaic #thinking
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
I’m not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor. You know a conjurer gets no credit once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 4 [Holmes], Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #holmes #behindthecurtain #conjurer #explanation #falsemodesty #magictrick #magician #mystery #secret #selfdeprecating #selfeffacing
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Plunder, Mystery, and Intrigue: Visiting the British Museum and the British Library
After leaving the Lake District, I traveled to London by train, for the third part of my trip. This was where I saw the most libraries during my trip. On my last day in London, August 3rd, I visited the British Museum, located in London’s West End, which was overcrowded with tourists. This made viewing the so-called “chronicle of Western collection,” which was acquired through extensive plunder and theft, as American tour guide Rick Steves describes the museum, very uncomfortable. Even so, there were two highlights. The first was the stately and round reading room. English writers Virginia Woolf and Beatrix Potter, Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, radical thinkers Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, women’s rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst, independence activist Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Irish author Bram Stoker all studied there.
Note: This serves as second part of my series on this blog about my library tourism last year, with the first part, about my attempted and successful library tourism in Edinburgh and Northern England, posted on this blog last week. The series begins, chronologically, with my guest post on Reel Librarians, on February 11th, in a post entitled “Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland: Library tourism redux.” It will be reposted on here over a month later. There will be one more parts of this series, focusing on my continued library tourism in Belgium coming next week.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, as noted in Doyle’s “The Complete Sherlock Holmes,” studied in the reading room. In the 1893 short story “The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual” (sometimes abbreviated as “The Musgrave Ritual”), he studied “those branches of science which might make me more efficient” in the reading room. He learned other information from the British Museum in chapter 15 of 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles and “The Tiger of San Pedro” chapter, within a 1917 collection entitled His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (sometimes abbreviated as “His Last Bow”). There are mentions of libraries in the short stories “The Five Orange Pips”, “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”, and “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet” in the 1892 short story collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
The same is the case for “The Musgrave Ritual,” “The ‘Gloria Scott’”, and “The Reigate Squires” all within the 1893 short story collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, and the stories “The Adventures of the Three Students” and “The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez” in the 1905 short story collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Apart from that, chapter 10 of The Hound of the Baskervilles, chapter 7 of the 1915 novel The Valley of Fear, and the story “The Problem of Thorn Bridge” in the 1927 set of short stories The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes feature libraries as well. Lastly, there’s a mention of a London Library in St. James’s Square and Lomax, who is said to be a “sublibrarian,” in “The Illustrious Client.” This is another short story within The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
In an email communication, Nathalie Belkin, an archivist who works for the London Library, told me that Doyle was a library member, joining in 1896 after his friend, and fellow writer, Arthur Griffith, nominated him. According to Belkin, Doyle was an active library user, even serving on the library’s committee. In fact, it is believed that The Illustrious Client, also entitled The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, was written in the library’s main reading room. While the borrowing history from the time has been lost, he was a “well-known fixture” of the library.
Otherwise, Karl Marx formulated ideas on communism, including within Das Kapital (also known as Capital), in the aforementioned reading room within the British Museum. Displays within the room describe it as a place for diverse thought. Many patrons left behind their mark in the visitors log. It was even one of the first places in London to have electric light (in 1879)! The room could, at maximum, hold 302 readers sitting at 38 tables, sitting across from each other, and was heated from underneath. Readers would consult a catalogue of printed books in the room’s center, then fill out a request form. In some ways, this makes this room similar to the Library of Congress’s Reading Room, since books for the British Library could be accessed there until they were moved to their current location in 1997. In fact, 62,000 people came when this reading room opened in 1857. A sign, when looking into the reading room, tells visitors to be quiet, feeding into the common conception of libraries as quiet places, which is not always the case for all libraries anymore.
Compilation of four photographs of the Reading Room within the British Library, taken on August 3, 2025 (Photographs by me. Sorry for the blurriness in one of these photos)What Rick Steves didn’t mention is that the historic reading room only re-opened to the public in 2024 after being closed for eleven years. The room was designed by Sydney Smirke, inspired by Rome’s domed Pantheon, and opened in 1857. It first re-opened to visitors in 2000 (after it stopped being an active reading room in 1997), then closed in 2013, when it was used for archival storage. The room, described by some as “legendary,” “stunning,” and an impressive sight for bibliophiles (protagonist and book-defender Elianna Bernstein of Bibliophile Princess would be right at home there) is not technically a library anymore. You can’t borrow any of the 25,000 books, and photography is now permitted (it wasn’t previously). Even so, it is still a marvel to see. You can even go on a twenty-minute tour there and there is currently a plan to completely transform the galleries and reading room.
The second highlight was the Enlightenment Gallery, formerly known as the King’s Library. It once held the British Library’s treasures when it was founded in 1753. Today it holds objects about the Age of Enlightenment, as Rick Steves notes. A display board, when you enter the room, says that it was developed in partnership with the House of Commons Library and the Natural History Museum. The current books on display are being loaned from the House of Commons Library. The aforementioned display notes that those who lent non-book artifacts to the gallery included the British King, the Science Museum in London, King’s College in London, Wellcome Collection, Society of Antiquities of London, Victor and Albert Museum, the Linnean Society of London, and the Royal Asiatic Society (also in London). Of these institutions, most have their own libraries. In fact, the D. Leonard Corgan Library at Kings College, the college’s main library, served as a location in Dan Brown’s controversial novel The Da Vinci Code. The building’s exterior appeared in the 2020 film Enola Holmes, a mystery film about Sherlock Holmes’ teenage sister.
The room itself was originally created, in 1823, to house King George II’s library, hence the original name. It was designed by architect Robert Smirke, known for the British Museum’s main facade and block, along with various clubs and houses within London. Of these, the Inner Temple, for which he did some work on, has a library, which continues to operate to this day, as did Bickley Hall. Smike also completed building restoration of the Bodleian Library’s Upper Reading room, which is part of the “old library.” As for the Enlightenment Gallery, it has a Greek Revival design, with neoclassical decoration. It’s said to be in keeping with the “styles of libraries in grand houses all over Britain” at the time, with claims it has echoes of “ancient wisdom and learning.” In 1998, the British Library moved to a new location across from the current St. Pancras station. The latter is not to be confused with pancreas or the Japanese anime film which centers on libraries and librarians, entitled I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. It is far too easy to call it “pancreas” by mistake, a name that almost stuck with me.
This gallery is where thousands of objects can be viewed and serves as an introduction to the British Museum’s collections. Even so, for me, I visited it at the end of my time at the overcrowded museum. I was inspired to visit this room by one particular scene in the December 2011 anime film, K-On! the Movie, a spinoff from the 2009-2010 anime series, K-On!. It features two episodes with libraries, including one about studying in the library and featuring a student librarian at an information desk. In fact, I rewatched this film before my trip to London, just for this scene. During the film, Yui Hirasawa, Ritsu Tainaka, Mio Akiyama, Azusa Nakano, and Tsumugi Kotobuki bop around London, visiting many sites, including walking through the strangely empty Great Court of the British Museum. They make their way into the gallery. During a short scene, Azusa points out that the Rosetta Stone (she put it on their itinerary) is also a replica. In fact, they used a replica in a school play as the death stone for a Romeo & Juliet play, because the fake tombstone they wanted to use had been misplaced.
My photograph on the left on August 3, 2024, of the Rosetta Stone replica in the Enlightenment Gallery, and image of the replica from K-On! the Movie on the right.The British Museum also has the actual Rosetta Stone in the Egyptian sculpture room, but like Yui, Ritsu, Mio, Azusa, and Tsumugi, I only looked at and touched the replica. The aforementioned gallery likely would have been overcrowded, as the gallery rooms I visited were extremely overcrowded and not suited for visitors. They had inadequate airflow and no overhead fans. As for the film, there were a few other short library scenes in the private all-girls school the protagonists attend, Sakuragaoka High School.
The same day I visited the British Museum, I visited the British Library. It sits across from St. Pancras station, and would be the last library I visited in the U.K. As Rick Steves put it, the British empire built its “greatest monuments out of paper.” The library holds every publication within the U.K. and Northern Ireland, with over 170 million items, such as sacred texts, maps, the Magna Carta, Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebook, plays by William Shakespeare, and lyrics of songs by the Beatles. This library, established by an act of Parliament in July 1972 and opened in July 1973, is one of the biggest in the world. It’s only rivaled by the Library of Congress, Russian State Library in Moscow, or Shanghai Library in China. Many such institutions are the legal deposit libraries for their respective countries. Anyone is open to explore the British Library reading rooms and peruse exhibits. You can get a readers registration pass if you are over 18, allowing you to enter the reading rooms.
When I visited, on August 3rd, the reading rooms for humanities, manuscripts, rare books, music, science, maps, and Asian and African studies, were not open. I even saw rooms reserved for the sole purpose of prayer, and went through the “Treasures of the British Library” exhibit in the St. John Ritblat Gallery. It contained many of the artifacts I noted in the previous paragraph. Perhaps because they have the space, the British Library holds the library collections of the British Museum. Rare books fill the middle of the library in a massive climate-controlled column, allowing the upper floors to only be accessed by stairs or elevators, and affecting the structure of each floor. There was also a fascinating collection of foreign currency, stamps, and other postage from former British colonies, called the Philatelic Collection. It could be easily overlooked, but was fun to look through, especially in the way it was displayed.
Like the British museums I visited during my travels, they asked for a donation, but they were free to enter, without payment or restriction. The number of visitors using the study area made clear that they were open to all, in line with library ethical principles, as did the books in their bookshop, some of which would likely be on banned books lists of in U.S. libraries. In the next part of this series, I’ll talk briefly about the university library I visited in Belgium.
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Last day of the Steam Ukrainian Games Festival 2023.
Lots of games on sale, lots of new stuff to check out.
Aside from the big names like Stalker and Metro, a couple of my favourites from the games I've played (both play absolutely fine on Linux):
Ostriv
A calm, mellow town builder. Reminds me a lot of the original Settlers. A game that understand the joy of watching your little people actually build their little houses; rather than stand there hammering as the walls and roof magically rise from the ground, your people bring beams, erect the beams into place, construct walls, etc. All the buildings are unique, so everyone gets their own little house. The quoted post below has a few screenshots.
Edit to add: I completely forgot to make this post a quote. Here was my post on Mastodon I planned to quote: https://mas.to/@picard/110129617459697107 🤦♂️😴
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
A great detective game. With all the aids turned off, it can really feel like you're having to investigate crime scenes to look for clues and figure out what happened (rather than just following pointers). Probably the best narrative detective game I've played. Not played the sequel The Awakened yet, but heard good things about it too.
And a few others I'm looking forward to checking out:
Erra: Exordium
Played a bit of the demo, really love the atmosphere and vibe of this one - feels unique. One of the developers is on Mastodon and regularly writes about the development: @[email protected]
Bosorka
Looks visually very beautiful, and been recommended to me as worth playing - always have room for some action-type games with interesting aesthetics.
Farlanders
Loved the demo on this - an unusual turn-based Martian colony builder. Has some interesting mechanics that make positioning of buildings to generate adjacency bonuses a key consideration.
Boxville
Looks like a whimsical point-and-click puzzle adventure game about a couple of tin cans. Do feel like I need some more light-hearted games in my life these days!
Obviously a load more games on the sale worthy of mention, but not enough space to write about everything I added to my wishlist. Just felt like writing a few words about some of them!
#Gaming #GamingOnLinux #OstrivGame #SherlockHolmes #ErraExordium #Bosorka #Farlanders #Boxville #Ukraine #UkrainianGamesFestival -
Last day of the Steam Ukrainian Games Festival 2023.
Lots of games on sale, lots of new stuff to check out.
Aside from the big names like Stalker and Metro, a couple of my favourites from the games I've played (both play absolutely fine on Linux):
Ostriv
A calm, mellow town builder. Reminds me a lot of the original Settlers. A game that understand the joy of watching your little people actually build their little houses; rather than stand there hammering as the walls and roof magically rise from the ground, your people bring beams, erect the beams into place, construct walls, etc. All the buildings are unique, so everyone gets their own little house. The quoted post below has a few screenshots.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
A great detective game. With all the aids turned off, it can really feel like you're having to investigate crime scenes to look for clues and figure out what happened (rather than just following pointers). Probably the best narrative detective game I've played. Not played the sequel The Awakened yet, but heard good things about it too.
And a few others I'm looking forward to checking out:
Erra: Exordium
Played a bit of the demo, really love the atmosphere and vibe of this one - feels unique. One of the developers is on Mastodon and regularly writes about the development: @[email protected]
Bosorka
Looks visually very beautiful, and been recommended to me as worth playing - always have room for some action-type games with interesting aesthetics.
Farlanders
Loved the demo on this - an unusual turn-based Martian colony builder. Has some interesting mechanics that make positioning of buildings to generate adjacency bonuses a key consideration.
Boxville
Looks like a whimsical point-and-click puzzle adventure game about a couple of tin cans. Do feel like I need some more light-hearted games in my life these days!
Obviously a load more games on the sale worthy of mention, but not enough space to write about everything I added to my wishlist. Just felt like writing a few words about some of them!
#Gaming #GamingOnLinux #OstrivGame #SherlockHolmes #ErraExordium #Bosorka #Farlanders #Boxville #Ukraine #UkrainianGamesFestival -
Last day of the Steam Ukrainian Games Festival 2023.
Lots of games on sale, lots of new stuff to check out.
Aside from the big names like Stalker and Metro, a couple of my favourites from the games I've played (both play absolutely fine on Linux):
Ostriv
A calm, mellow town builder. Reminds me a lot of the original Settlers. A game that understand the joy of watching your little people actually build their little houses; rather than stand there hammering as the walls and roof magically rise from the ground, your people bring beams, erect the beams into place, construct walls, etc. All the buildings are unique, so everyone gets their own little house. The quoted post below has a few screenshots.
Edit to add: I completely forgot to make this post a quote. Here was my post on Mastodon I planned to quote: https://mas.to/@picard/110129617459697107 🤦♂️😴
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
A great detective game. With all the aids turned off, it can really feel like you're having to investigate crime scenes to look for clues and figure out what happened (rather than just following pointers). Probably the best narrative detective game I've played. Not played the sequel The Awakened yet, but heard good things about it too.
And a few others I'm looking forward to checking out:
Erra: Exordium
Played a bit of the demo, really love the atmosphere and vibe of this one - feels unique. One of the developers is on Mastodon and regularly writes about the development: @[email protected]
Bosorka
Looks visually very beautiful, and been recommended to me as worth playing - always have room for some action-type games with interesting aesthetics.
Farlanders
Loved the demo on this - an unusual turn-based Martian colony builder. Has some interesting mechanics that make positioning of buildings to generate adjacency bonuses a key consideration.
Boxville
Looks like a whimsical point-and-click puzzle adventure game about a couple of tin cans. Do feel like I need some more light-hearted games in my life these days!
Obviously a load more games on the sale worthy of mention, but not enough space to write about everything I added to my wishlist. Just felt like writing a few words about some of them!
#Gaming #GamingOnLinux #OstrivGame #SherlockHolmes #ErraExordium #Bosorka #Farlanders #Boxville #Ukraine #UkrainianGamesFestival -
Star Trek authors Michael Jan Friedman, John Peel, Keith RA DeCandido, and Robb Pearlman, are joined by fellow Trek scribe and Klingon General, JG Hertzler and Sherlock Holmes aficionado and writer, Chris Abbott for a literary voyage through all things Star Trek and beyond!
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